# What are your favorite funk/R&B songs from the 70's?

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**Created:** [January 9, 2012, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-favorite-funk-r-b-songs-from-the-70s/608936 "2012-01-09T16:43:04Z")\
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**Post date:** [January 12, 2012, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-favorite-funk-r-b-songs-from-the-70s/608936/11 "2012-01-12T21:39:56Z")

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> [@WordMan](#):
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> Go for Your Guns, The Isley Brothers - greasiest clavinet groove you can find.

I’m not entirely sure. As mentioned in earlier threads here:

> [@Funkiest song ever](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funkiest-song-ever/505095/61):
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> Eminent musicologists have long contended [1] that _Superstition_ is not merely funky but actually **stanky**.
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> [1] Ellis, D. et al, _J. Funk. Stud_ 36( **2** ), 1978

Dig the clavinet, brother!

(Though, it doesn’t actually require clavinet. Check out a version with guitar: [Stevie Wonder and his band performing Superstition live on Sesame Street](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ul7X5js1vE).)

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